Lovesick is an English word with synonyms like unhappy. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Lovesick in a sentence
Lovesick meaning
- Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of unrequited or unfulfilled love.
- Having an aching desire for one's beloved.
Synonyms of Lovesick
Using Lovesick
- The main meaning on this page is: Behaving oddly, or as though in distress, due to being overcome by feelings of unrequited or unfulfilled love. | Having an aching desire for one's beloved.
- Useful related words include: unhappy.
- In the example corpus, lovesick often appears in combinations such as: lovesick girls, of lovesick, lovesick teen.
Context around Lovesick
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Lovesick
- In this selection, "lovesick" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, song, single, track, girls, teen and romantics stand out and add context to how "lovesick" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2023 single lovesick has more and adolescent to lovesick teenager. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "lovesick" sits close to words such as abad, abolishment and abr, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with lovesick
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He is only a “lovesick teen” because he was a teenaged boy. (12 words)
About halfway through the concert during the hit song “Lovesick Girls,” Jennie left to recover backstage. (16 words)
Lovesick on Netflix: Cancelled or Season 4? (Release Date) - canceled TV shows - TV Series FinaleCancelled or Renewed? (17 words)
The first opera, “The Nightingale and the Rose,” starred senior Kyra Link as the titular Nightingale, who sacrifices her life to help a lovesick student (sophomore Mona Tavangar) win the heart of his professor’s daughter (junior Mikayla Barreiro). (39 words)
Lovesick has a lot going for it, namely the indelible plot, which sees Dylan (Johnny Fynn) forced to contact all of his previous sexual partners after being diagnosed with chlamydia (hence the series’ original title: Scrotal Recall). (37 words)
The stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film has been playing to packed audiences, telling the story of a lovesick songwriter and a cabaret performer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris. (32 words)
Lovesick on Netflix: Cancelled or Season 4? (Release Date) - canceled TV shows - TV Series FinaleCancelled or Renewed? (17 words)
Example sentences (16)
About halfway through the concert during the hit song “Lovesick Girls,” Jennie left to recover backstage.
Because, truthfully, we’re just a bunch of lovesick romantics, standing in front of a television set, asking to watch beautiful people fall in love.
His boisterous friends Benvolio and Mercutio hope to bring him out of his lovesick depression by crashing Capulet’s masquerade party.
Painting Bella as just a lovesick teen would be unfair -- she had many layers, and being in love with a vampire and werewolf was just one of them.
He had four number-one hits on the UK singles chart: I Remember You, Lovesick Blues, The Wayward Wind, and Confessin’ That I Love You.
Their 2023 single "Lovesick" has more of the same, and will be a treat to hear live (if they choose to play it, that is).
Lovesick has a lot going for it, namely the indelible plot, which sees Dylan (Johnny Fynn) forced to contact all of his previous sexual partners after being diagnosed with chlamydia (hence the series’ original title: Scrotal Recall).
Of the eight songs on the album, the title track, “Lovesick Girls,” dynamited Blackpink away from their typical black and pink colors, trappy beats and fierce yet cute image.
The first opera, “The Nightingale and the Rose,” starred senior Kyra Link as the titular Nightingale, who sacrifices her life to help a lovesick student (sophomore Mona Tavangar) win the heart of his professor’s daughter (junior Mikayla Barreiro).
In adaptations across the decades, she has gone from cherubic little girl to frightening adolescent to lovesick teenager.
The stage adaptation of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film has been playing to packed audiences, telling the story of a lovesick songwriter and a cabaret performer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
He is only a “lovesick teen” because he was a teenaged boy.
If you’re looking for a late-night watch and are hungover or something like that, “Lovesick” isn’t a bad choice.
Lovesick on Netflix: Cancelled or Season 4? (Release Date) - canceled TV shows - TV Series FinaleCancelled or Renewed?
The Richard Curtis film, Love Actually, has become a Christmas classic; of all the scenes, one stands out as being particularly iconic – in which lovesick Mark tells Juliet how he feels.
Lovesick, he is harassed by phantoms in Nanna's likeness and his health deteriorates so that he cannot walk but has himself drawn around in a cart.
Common combinations with lovesick
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- lovesick girls 2×
- of lovesick 2×
- lovesick teen 2×
- lovesick has 2×